[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39105-39106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-10844]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0490; FRL-8195-6]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Consolidated Emissions Reporting 
(Renewal); EPA ICR No. 0916.12, OMB Control No. 2060-0088

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an 
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, 
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated 
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 10, 
2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2005-0490, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to [email protected], or by mail to: 
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency, Air and 
Radiation Docket, Mail Code/6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: 
Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Beauregard, Air Quality 
Assessment Division (C339-02), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 919-
541-5512; fax number: 919-541-0684; e-mail address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On March 2, 2006 (71 FR 10668), EPA sought comments on this 
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received one comment which was not 
relevant to the reporting burden estimate in the ICR. Any additional 
comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days 
of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0490, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air and 
Radiation Docket and Information Center in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/
DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 
Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number 
for the Reading Room is 202-566-1744, and the telephone number for the 
Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center is 202-566-1742.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is

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that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, 
will be made available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 
as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment contains 
copyrighted material, Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other 
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: Consolidated Emissions Reporting (Renewal).
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0916.12, OMB Control No. 2060-0088.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2006. Under 
OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the 
collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. An 
Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to 
respond to, a collection of information, unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations 
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when 
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, are displayed either by 
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such 
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The 
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is 
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: EPA has promulgated a Consolidated Emissions Reporting 
Rule (CERR) (40 CFR part 51, subpart A) to coordinate new emissions 
inventory reporting requirements with existing requirements of the 
Clean Air Act and 1990 Amendments. Under the CERR, 55 State and 
Territorial air quality agencies, including the District of Columbia, 
as well as an estimated 49 local air quality agencies, must annually 
submit emissions data for point sources emitting specified levels of 
volatile organic compounds, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, sulfur 
dioxide, particulate matter less than or equal to 10 micrometers in 
diameter, particulate matter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers in 
diameter (PM2.5), and ammonia (NH3).
    Every 3 years, States will be required to submit a point source 
inventory, as well as a statewide stationary nonpoint, nonroad mobile, 
onroad mobile, and biogenic source inventory for all criteria 
pollutants and PM2.5, and NH3. The emissions data 
submitted for the annual and 3-year cycle inventories for stationary 
point, nonpoint, nonroad mobile, and mobile sources will be used by 
EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards to assist in 
developing ambient air quality emission standards, performing regional 
modeling, and in preparing national trends assessments and other 
special analyses and reports. Collection of PM2.5 emissions 
data will be necessary to support implementation of the 
PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The information 
collected under the authority of the CERR is mandatory and as specified 
in the CERR cannot be treated as confidential by EPA.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 29 
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial 
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This 
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, 
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of 
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and 
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; 
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable 
instructions and requirements which have subsequently changed; train 
personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search 
data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and 
transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: State, local and tribal governments, 
Business, Federal Government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,038.
    Frequency of Response: Annually and Triennially.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 58,172.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $4,684,595, includes $230,880 
annualized capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 54,679 hours in 
the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease resulted from the elimination of 
the ``One Time Activities'' that were accounted for under the currently 
approved ICR.

    Dated: June 23, 2006.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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